Photo by Matt Hintza for the Cornell Sun

Lecture Presentations:

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (series of lecture/recitals & seminars)Notation to Performance: The musician's role in interpreting historical music

Shakespeare Authorship Conference, Ashland, Oregon
co-sponsored by The Shakespeare-Oxford Society and the Shakespeare Fellowship 2010:My Lord of Oxenford’s Maske: Poetry and music associated with Edward de Vere2005:Music in Shakespeare

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York2010:Negotiating trade: Commercial Institutions & Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval & Early Modern World2008:Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Late Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century

John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Art & Music in the Stuart Age as seen through Six Portraits: Constantijn Huygens, Lady Mary Killigrew, John Donne, Jacques Gaultier, and Nicholas Lanier

COMMENTS FROMOUR AUDIENCES

"Several in the audience said they thought it was clever of the
musicians to sing and play gradually louder as the program went on.
In truth, no such "crescendo" happened; what *did* happen was that we
all began to enter the delicate and subtle tonal world offered to us.”

"Patrons and staff were treated to an Elizabethan treat on Sunday: 'Shakespeare's Lute Book' was presented by Mignarda, a lute/vocal combination from Ithaca, NY. Donna Stewart's vocals and Ron Andrico's lute were heard throughout the library by more than 100 patrons of all ages. Unfamiliar songs were played along with favorite tunes like Greensleeves, and the program also included a dose of history of the lute and the music/poetry of the English Renaissance. Comments included 'Amazing', 'great inspiration', 'a most delightful program', 'more of these!' "